The area’s top official at the Environmental Protection Agency on
Wednesday said New York state officials failed to inform residents of
Hoosick Falls of the dangerous levels of PFOA in their municipal
drinking water.
“EPA was saying don’t drink the water,” Region II administration
Judith Enck said in an interview on WCNY’s The Capitol Pressroom. “The
Health Department was putting out fact sheets saying something
different. The Health Department should have publicly shared the
information about the PFOA in the drinking water.”
The comments made Wednesday by Enck is the latest in a protracted
back and forth between federal environmental officials and Gov. Andrew
Cuomo’s administration over the Hoosick Falls water contamination.
The governor’s office, and his top cabinet officials at the
Environmental Conservation and Health departments, have repeatedly
insisted the EPA failed in properly outlining the appropriate safety
levels for the chemical PFOA in drinking water.
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